The outpouring of bad news in the media about layoffs continues unabated. The New York Times reports today that companies across the board are resorting to mass job cuts.

But this belies myriad opportunities: hundreds of thousands of companies are continuing to hire. While big layoffs are headline-grabbing, gradual hiring in sometimes hidden corners of the economy often goes unnoticed by the media.

Use Indeed’s job search to ferret out the jobs that fit your own background and our job trends to see which jobs are in demand. If the industry you’re in is struggling, find where you can deploy your skills in areas of the economy that are growing.

Try looking for the silver lining amongst the clouds; foreclosure work, for example, is booming. Or seek out opportunities in new technologies like renewable energy that are likely to transform tomorrow’s economy.

The Times itself found one pocket of growth, noting here that “Indeed.com shows a thriving job market for MySQL and Linux developers.” Not only that, but demand for MySQL and Linux skills is also strongly rising.

Good luck in your job search and please let us know your job search success stories.

At Indeed, our number-one priority is the job seeker experience – making sure our users have the most comprehensive job search in existence, that our results are as fresh and relevant as possible, and the jobs in our index are real, open opportunities.

This approach also benefits our clients, who sponsor their jobs on Indeed for targeted job seeker traffic and qualified applications to their jobs. While we hear from job seekers all the time about their Indeed experiences, we also hear from our clients about how sponsored jobs are an easy, effective way to meet their recruitment advertising objectives. Here are some recent comments from our client case studies:

We hired five engineers in the first three months through Indeed. We were trying to hire for specific, hard-to-fill positions, and sponsoring jobs on Indeed delivered.
General Dynamics C4 Systems

Indeed was the best solution to get the greatest amount of visibility with the least amount of effort. We were looking for an Organizational Development Manager for just over a year, and filled the job within the first three months of sponsoring jobs on Indeed.
Intermountain Healthcare

It is extremely easy to sponsor jobs on Indeed and gain national exposure to top candidates. It is amazing just how qualified Indeed job seekers are – we were expecting to receive candidates for some of our easier-to-fill job openings and ended up hiring a Certified Cytotechnologist and a Registered Polysomnographic Technologist.
Tuality Healthcare

We thank these companies and all our hundreds of clients using Indeed.

Thanks to our users, Indeed won an award last week for the Best Online Job Search Site in a holiday poll at Lifehacker.

Millions of job seekers succeeded in getting new jobs during 2008, despite the recession. Below is a small sample from thousands of our users who told us how they used Indeed to find a job last year.

Prospects for job seekers in 2009 will remain difficult in depressed sectors like housing and financial services, but are likely to remain stronger in other areas like healthcare and education. While there may be little or no growth in net new jobs in the US economy during 2009, job openings will always be plentiful due to natural churn; after all, people continue to change jobs every three to four years on average.

We thank you and wish you the very best for 2009.

[Update: Indeed has also been picked by Search Engine Watch as the #1 web resource for finding jobs in search.]

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